Gasket



ASEAS'B E. J. WIRFS Jan y GASKET Filed Nov. 28, 1921 l dented 11.11.22, 11924.'

NITED STATES] *1,481,451 'I PATENT( OFFICE.

EDWARD J. wmrs, or WEBSTER. GnovEls, Missoula. I

GASKET.

l. Application filed November 28., 1921. Serial No. 518,221.

To all whom t may concer/n.:

Be it known that I, EDWARD J. Winrs,a citizen of the United States of America, a' resident of.Webster Groves, in the county of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improve.-l

ments in Gaskets, of-which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, refer# ence being had to the accompanying `drawin s, forming a part of this specification.

his invention relates to improvements in gaskets adapted for use as packing' around refrigerator doors, although it is to be' understood that the new asket could be used as a packing strip to orm a seal between various other objects.

The main object of the invention is Ito produce a strong, simple andinexpensive flexible gasket having a neat appearance askets,-I have shown a portion of` a re'- igerator equipped with gaskets A. A porp tion of a refrigerator vdoor is shown at B,

and C designates a portion of a refrigerator wall, the gasketsl being between the door and wall. Each asket is provided with a longitudinal attac ing flange D adapted to receivev tacks 1, or other suitable attaching devices, which may be driven through the flange and into the object to which the gasket is applied.

The preferedfform of the invention comprises an elongated body of yielding pack- -ing 2, which vmay be made of soft fibrous cord, the body of packing being primarily circular in cross section, as shown. in Fig. II,

and it can be compressed or flattened as shown in Fig.I. This packing will'freely yield to form an effective seal, .and when. the,

.pressure is relieved it will tend to return to the substantially cir/cular shape shown in Fig. II. t

The gasket includes la strip of flexible,

pliable material, preferably waterproof fab'- ric, having an enclosing middle portion 3,y

surrounding the elongated body of packing,

To illustrate one'of'the uses of the new .langcgv one vof said attachin intermediate portions 4 extending from one I side of the packing,.andmarginal portionsl 5' folded backwardly and interposed between said intermediate portions.- In the .00 ,preferred form vof theinven'tion, the interposed marginalv portions 5 are in contact with each other and also in contact with the inner faces ofthe intermediate portions 4, While inner edges of said intermediate portions are in contact with each other at the Junction of the enclosing middle 'portion 3 and intermediate lportions i4. l -At the junction just referred to, stitches 6 pass through and unite the: intermediatev ro portions 4, so as ,to closely confine the body of packing in theenclosing middle portion 3. Stitches 7 pass" through the :outer ed es of the intermediate portions 4 andi .a so through the interposed marginal portions 5. y

The several elements are thus combined witheach other to closely confine the body of soft packing 2 which is protected by the enclosing middle portion3 offa liexible, pliable strip, and the to form a strong attaching flange-'D ada tedV to receiveythe-A attaching devices 1. flange is vreinforced -byvthe interposed marginal .portions l5, and'aneat', smooth formed 1 by the folds V'at the members 4 and 5.

f Whenv the device is manufactured, thel' lange D is approximatelyl radial -to the body of packing 2, but owing to the ilexibility of the strip of fabric, a Vhinge-like titches 6, so to a llat surface, it can lie tangential tothe body of rpackin`g,as suggested by Fig. I.

connection is formed at fthe when the flange Dis attached I clalm: y l. As a new article of manufacture, a gasket comprising an elongated body of yielding packing, a strip of flexible, pliable material having a tubular enclosing portion surrounding said packing andattach- 10o ing portionsextending from on@ side of .said packing to form an attaching-flange,

stitches passing through anduniting said attaching port1onsat the junction of said tubular enclosing portion and the attaching .105

portions 'so as -to close said tubular portion and vconfine the packing therein, and stitches passing through and uniting said `attaching portions-at the outer -edge of said attaching ing a marginal extension fol ed backwardly to form a folded outer edge for said-attachportions 4 and 5 are 'united 80 his .edge is v Junctions of 86 portions have no ing flange, and the last mentioned stitches being passed through said marginal extension.

2. .As a new article of manufacture, a gasket comprising an elongated body of yieldin packing, a strip of flexible, pliable materia having a tubular middle portion surrounding said packing, two intermediate portions extending from one side of said packing to form an attaching' flange, and marginal portions folded backwardly to provide four plies in said attaching flange, stitches passing through and uniting said intermediate portions at the junction of said tubular middle portion and the intermediate portions so as to lclose said tubular portion, and stitches passing through the s outer edges oli-theI two intermediate portions and, also through'the folded marginal portions. Y

3. As a new yielding fibrous packing substantially circular in cross-section, a strip of exible,

altle of manufacture; agasket comprising an elongated ,body of,

pliable materialhaving a tubular middle portion surrounding said packing,` intermediate portions eXtending-from one side' -the inner faces of the intermediate portions,

said intermediate portions being in contact with each other at the junction of the tubular middle portion and the intermediate portions, stitches passing through and uniting the intermediate portions at said junction so as to confine the packing in said tubular middle portion, and stitches passing through the outer edges of said intermediate V portions and also through said interposed marginal portions.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I signature.

hereunto affix my v f EDwAnn J. wiens. 

